At the same meeting, statements were made by Mohamed Bennouna, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China); Mario Baccini, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Italy (on behalf of the European Union); Juli Minoves-Triquell, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Andorra; Paula Lehtomäki, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development of Finland; Yuri V. Fedotov, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Shinako Tsuchiya, Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan; Antonio Ruíz García, Vice-Minister of Rural Development of Mexico; Jan O. Karlsson, Minister for Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy of Sweden; Miguel von Hoegen, Secretary for Programming and Planning of the Presidency of Guatemala; Kashiram Rana, Minister for Rural Development of India; María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila, Minister for Foreign Affairs of El Salvador; Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba; Valli Moosa, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism of South Africa; Ovidiu Ionescu, Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forests of Romania; Ivan Šimonović, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Croatia; and Tom Kitt, Minister of State for Overseas Development and Human Rights of Ireland.
Caroline Millar, Primera Secretaria Auxiliar de la División de Organizaciones Internacionales y Asuntos Jurídicos del Departamento de Relaciones Exteriores y Comercio de Australia; el Sr. Serge Chappatte, Subdirector de la Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación; el Sr.